perhaps, perhaps the question of America is not a political question
but a religious question……
the overall understanding of history since the 1500 or the modern era
is the transference of faith from the religious/god to the
secular/nation/nationalism… we have seen this played out in the history of
America since 1776… the attempt has been to transfer the allegiance of its
citizens from god/religion to the state……. this attempt of transference of
allegiance has been the history of the last 500 years…
the problem of faith has been a long one in western civilization…
and the problem with faith is simply this, what happens when one
loses faith? we have seen this loss of faith in America for decades……
but what will/should replace our faith in America? the answer has been
some vain attempt to replace that lost faith with a return to the faith
of our fathers, a return to faith in god/religion…
but as some has noted, you can’t go home again……
how shall we replace our faith in country?
we have gone from faith in god/religion to country…
Marx made his famous attempt to replace faith in god/religion
with faith in dialectical materialism…with faith in the impersonal
forces of history… all you have to do with stand with this mystical force
of history and you too will be saved… for Marxism is simply a secular
faith… as has been long been noted by just about everyone…
the question of modern society is simply a question of “what shall we believe?”
“what shall WE believe?”
it is a collective question of what the many should hold sacred…
I cannot hold to any sort of metaphysical belief in some god or religion
but I also cannot hold to any sort of metaphysical belief in America…
which makes me the real atheist… one can deny god and religion
in America today but deny to deny the highest belief possible which is
in the divinity of America and you have committed the greatest act
of heresy known to the modern world… that is the faith of the secular
world… where one can deny god/religion with less consequences then
denying one’s faith in America… for denying the greatness of America
means the risk of being called un-American or being called a traitor or
being called an deserter or a deceiver or conspirator a “Benedict Arnold”…
and in the modern world, those names are worse then committing any
sort of religious heresy which gets one excommunicated from a church…
defy the American faith and one can get jail or shot or hunted down like
an animal or threatened…
the greatest crime in the modern world is insubordination
and denying the greatness of America is the greatest act
of insubordination known today……
which, in part, shows us the weakness in modern man
in the modern political world…… for if one believes,
truly believes, then the comments of a non-believer shouldn’t matter,
but because the faith is so weak in America that any, any denial of the greatness
of America is grounds for an attack upon the negator of America greatness…
we have suffered the loss in god/religion and now we are presently
suffering the loss of faith in the political realm, in the greatness of America…
and in what shall we believe in after the loss of belief in god/religion and
loss of faith in America?
shall we return to some sort of faith in some ism or ideology or, or shall
we engage in some honest reflection into the nature of faith and what we
should be holding belief/faith in…
what do you hold faith in and conversely, what should you be holding faith in?
“What should we believe in?”
Kropotkin